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"Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day."
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"Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history."
History
"If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny."
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"Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion."
Religion
"Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?"
Love
"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."
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"Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications."
Society
"I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good."
Religion
"It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on."
Religion
"Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive."
Superiority
"Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place."
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"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."
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"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."
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"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
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"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."
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Personal Development
"There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators."
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"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after."
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"A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day."
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"Every day, I have a most embarrassing moment."
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Personal Development
"No charges have been filed by the L.A. district attorney's office, and for that I am appreciative. I have said it before, but we all make mistakes, and the day will come soon enough where you no longer read of mine in the tabloids."
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Personal Development
"Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day."
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